This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1504.
Events Unknown dates Walloon poet Jean Lemaire de Belges joins the court of Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy. Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice.
New books Prose Pomponius Gauricus – De sculptura et pictura antiquorum Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (romance)
Drama Beunans Meriasek (in Cornish)
Poetry
Pierre Gringore – Les Abus du monde Thomas More – Fortune Verses (c. 1504)Text: Retrieved 18 January 2018.
Births October 29 – Shin Saimdang, Korean calligrapher and poet (died 1551) November – Giovanni Battista Giraldi ("Cinthio"), Italian novelist and poet (died 1573) c. December – Nicholas Udall, English schoolmaster playwright (died 1556) unknown date – Ranabai, Hindu mystical poet (died 1570)
Deaths August 28 – John Paston, English gentleman, author and recipient of some of the Paston Letters (born 1444) September 24 – Bartolomeo della Rocca ("Cocles"), Italian astrologer (born 1467) unknown dates Petrus Haedus (Pietro Cavretto), Italian priest and writer (born 1427) Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Castilian author (born c. 1450)
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